Merryn Talks Money

Ed Conway on the Hidden Supply Chains That Run the World

September 14, 2026·35 min
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Merryn Somerset Webb speaks with Ed Conway, economics and data editor at Sky News and author of Trade World, about the vast and often invisible supply chains behind the things we buy. They discuss whether decades of globalisation have made economies more resilient or dangerously dependent, China’s manufacturing advantage and whether the UK and Europe can rebuild their industrial base without giving up the cheap goods consumers have come to expect.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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